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Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Fight, Flight, Freeze, or Fawn'' response is a physiological [[Defence Mechanisms]] autonomically deployed by the [[Physical Unit]] when it perceives a harmful event, attack, or threat to its survival. When the [[Bodily Ego]] perceives a threat, when it experiences fear, it may fight to put the threat down, flee from the threat, freeze (become silent, try to slip into the background to avoid detection), or fawn (try to please whoever is triggering the response)<ref>Marschall, Amy. “The Four Fear Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn.” Verywell Mind, 2021. https://www.verywellmind.com/the-four-fear-responses-fight-flight-freeze-and-fawn-5205083.</ref>
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==Additional Reading==

For an excellent overview,read [Marschall, Amy. “The Four Fear Responses: Fight, Flight, Freeze, and Fawn.” Verywell Mind, 2021. https://www.verywellmind.com/the-four-fear-responses-fight-flight-freeze-and-fawn-5205083. "The Four Fear Responses."]

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Right Action

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'''Right Action''' is action/behavior that supports [[Healing]] and [[Connection]]. Right action may be fully encapsulated as the ''Aligned responsibility to uplift all of creation.''
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==The Three Rs of Alignment==

Right action is one of a three-part trinity of considerations ([[Three_Rs_of_Alignment]]) that lead towards [[alignment]] and the reduction of [[disjuncture]], the others being [[Right Thought]] and [[Right Environment]].

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Right Action is one of the [[Three Rs of Alignment]], (the others being [[Right Environment]] and [[Right Action]]) that, when taken together, provide the foundations of [[Healing]] and [[Connection]]. Taken together, right thought, action, and environment constitute the LPs [[Alignment Rule Set]]

Right action is action aligned with [[Highest Self]]. This includes, in Vedic lore,

: [[Ahimsa]] अहिंसा) - non-violence,
: asteya अस्तेय - non-stealing,
: brahmacarya ब्रह्मचार्य - appropriate use of vital energies
: aparigraha अपरिग्रह - non-possessiveness
: sauca शौचा - purity, cleanliness
: IsvarapranidhAna इस्वरप्रनिधन - devotion, alignment with "higher force" (i.e. Self)
: Duty <ref>Vivekananda, Swami. "The Secret of Work." Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 5. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf</ref>
: Helping other meet their [[Seven Essential Needs]]<ref>Vivekananda, Swami. “Karma Yoga.” Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda. Vol. 1. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf</ref>
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Karma is an elaboration of the consequences of action and an admonishment to engage in right action because wrong action builds up (in our neurology, in our habits, in its consequences) and accumulates. <ref>See for example [https://spiritwiki.lightningpath.org/index.php/Swami%20Vivekananda Swami Vivekananda] book "Karma Yoga" to be found in Vivekananda, Swami. ''Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda''. Vol. 1. 9 vols. Advaita Ashrama, 2016. <nowiki>https://www.holybooks.com/wp-content/uploads/SWAMI-VIVEKANANDA-COMPLETE-WORKS-Vol-1.pdf</nowiki></ref>

=== In the literature ===
The Christian Ten Commandments can be seen as a statement of right action. Do not steal, do not kill (harm), do not covet (be possessive), etc.

A Zoroastrian avowal of faith indicates the significance of "well-thought thought," "well-spoken word," and "well-performed act." <ref>Boyce, Mary. A History of Zoroastrianism: Volume One The Early Period. New York: E. J. Brill, 1996. p. 254.</ref>

Man of the statements made by [[Handsome Lake]] in his Seneca teachings, in particular [[The Great Message]], are statements of right action, right thought, and right environment.<ref>Parker, Arthur C. [https://amzn.to/2H4fr8a The Code of Handsome Lake The Seneca Prophet.] New York: The University of the State of New York, 1913.</ref>

Right action can be determined theoretically, i.e. by considering the nature of [[Consciousness]] as a loving, compassionate, connected, responsible, blissful and powerful expression of divinity, or it can be determined intuitively, by responding to triggering emotions (Sosteric, GA). As regards the theoretical determination of right action, right action is action that allows for the full aligned expression of the love, compassion, and bliss of Consciousness through the physical unit.

Because of the uncompromising nature of higher consciousness, full [[Connection]] of the physical unit does not occur in a physical unit that does not engage in right action.

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Ego Inflation

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Ego Inflation''' is the over-inflation of the [[Bodily Ego]] that occurs when a damaged [[Bodily Ego]] with unmet love and self-esteem needs make a strong [[connection]]. An individual who experiences ego inflation comes to believe they are "special" or "chosen" in a way that elevates them to special status. Ego inflation is represented by unwarranted beliefs in one's intellectual, emotional, evolutionary, or spiritual superiority.
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==Notes==

"The opening psychic often falls prey to ego when it is assumed that only he/she can 'see' or 'heal,'..."<ref>Stevens, Petey. Opening up to Your Psychic Self. Nevertheless Press, 1983. p. ix.</ref>

When speaking about the significance and reality of mental influence over a distance, one researcher, Jule Eisenbud, U.S. psychiatrist, noted that his success at the experiments has "triggered infantile desires for power, for omnipotence, for control over others..." <ref>Vasiliev, L.L. Experiments in Mental Suggestion. Vol. 22. Hampton Roads: Charlottesville, 1963. p. x.</ref>

Ego inflation contributes to and exacerbates already existing narcissism, sometimes to the point of psychosis.

Ego inflation exacerbates the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect Dunning-Kruger effect].

Aleister Crowley is a classic example of ego inflation, which moved him from reasonable interpretations of spirituality, connection, one's [[Highest Self]], and so on, to claims made later in life that was a new Messiah spreading a new religion in a new Aeon.<ref>For some discussion of this see Pasi, Marco. “Varieties of Magical Experience: Aleister Crowley’s Views on Occult Practice.” In Aleister Crowley and Western Esotericism, edited by Henrik Bogdan and Martin P. Starr, 53–88. Oxford University Press, 2012.</ref>

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Book of Slavery

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<blockquote class="definition">The '''Book of Slavery''' is the collection of [[archetypes]] in this planet's [[Old Energy Creation Template]] used to justify and create the working/slave castes of the planet. It is a collection of archetypes used to justify power, hierarchy, inequality, the application of force, judgment, and exclusion.<ref>{{archetypesandcreationtemplates}}</ref> </blockquote>

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The Book of Slavery, is part of the [[Old Energy Creation Template]]. It contains archetypes used to convince individuals that hard work, long hours, and a life time of toil are essential moral and/or spiritual prerequisites for "salvation," redemption, or entry into the inner circles.

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Toxic Socialization

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'''Toxic Socialization''' is a socialization process intentionally designed by [[System Agents]] to undermine human potential and disable the body's ability to properly [[Connect]] and contain higher levels of [[Consciousness]]. A toxic socialization process is a socialization process characterized by [[violence]]<ref>The deleterious effects of violence and neglect in childhood are well established. For a summary, see Sosteric. “Toxic Socialization.” Socjourn, 2016. https://www.academia.edu/25275338/Toxic_Socialization.</ref> [[neglect]] (of the [[Seven Essential Needs]]), [[chaos]] (in the home environment), parentification, [[Indoctrination]], and distortion/destruction of healthy family [[Destruction of Attachments|Attachment]]s.
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Toxic socialization is a colonial/imperial/European socialization process implemented in order to damage human beings and make them more compliant, malleable, and subservient. A damaged human being is more likely to accept rote, demeaning, and exploitive working conditions found in Capitalist enterprises. A damaged human being is easier to manipulate and control.

As Fanon pointed out in the ''Wretched of the Earth'', toxic socialization "is a totalitarian systemic negation of the colonized, and is enforced by systemic [and we would add neglect] in all areas of life." <ref>Gibson, N.C., and R. Beneduce. Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics. London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2017. p. 7.</ref>

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moritz_Schreber Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber] is a German physician who actually advocated a horrific form of Toxic Socialization. Mom Katya Degrieck<ref>Degrieck, Katya. “Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber Archives.” Motherhood (blog). Accessed May 7, 2019. http://motherhoodinpointoffact.com/tag/dr-daniel-gottlieb-moritz-schreber/.</ref> provides some interesting commentary, including the insight that the popularity of his methods likely contributed to the easy growth of fascism in pre-WWII Germany! If that is not an argument for the global abolition of all toxic socialization practices, I don't know what is.

Toxic socialization is encouraged in at least one passage in the Old Testament, [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Proverbs+23:13-14 Proverbs 23: 13-14]

Martin Teicher provides a fascinating and compelling look at the neurological ''damage'' caused by violence and neglect in childhood.<Ref>Teicher, Martin. “Scars That Won’t Heal: The Neurobiology of Child Abuse.” Scientific American, 2002. https://cdpsdocs.state.co.us/ccjj/Committees/JuvenileTF/Handout/ScarsThatWontHeal-NeurobiologyOfChildAbuse.pdf.</ref> His article is particularly interesting because he notes the damage is actually adaptive and "sculps" the brain to respond in ways that although they are toxic and antisocial, nevertheless are adaptive for the organism as a whole.

Oscar Ichazo notes that the bodily ego becomes distorted and sick as a consequence of toxic socialization. "A person retains the purity of essence for a short time. It is lost between four and six years of age when the child begins to imitate his parents, tell lies, and pretend. A contradiction developers between the inner feelings of the child and the outer social reality to which he must conform. Ego consciousness is the limited mode of awareness that develops as a result of the fall into society. Personality forms a defensive layer over the essence and the world. The ego feels the world as alien and dangerous because it constantly fails to satisfy the deeper needs of the self."<ref>Keen, Sam. “Breaking the Tyranny of the Ego.” In Interviews with Oscar Ichazo. New York: Arica Institute Press, 1982. https://amzn.to/2MOwleU. p. 9</ref>

In an interesting nineteen seventy-five, James Prescott published a study suggesting the link between childhood violence and neglect, and adulthood violence and war. In the conclusion, the author says, "The competitive ethic, which teaches children that they must advance at the expense of others, should be replaced by values of cooperation and a pursuit of excellence for its own sake. We must raise children to be emotionally capable of giving love and affection, rather than to exploit others."<ref>Prescott, James W. “Body Pleasure and the Origins of Violence.” The Bulletin of The Atomic Scientists, 1975, 10–20. http://www.violence.de/prescott/bulletin/article.html</ref>

'''Freud''' recognizes toxic elements in "civilization" and even admits that it is society and its "defects" which has made people "embittered, revengeful and inaccessible." He admits the possibility that with healthier socialization, in a process where individuals "have been brought up in kindness and taught to have a high opinion of reason, and who have experienced the benefits of civilization at an early age," individuals might come to have better attitudes. He concludes that the re-education effort to attain this goal is impossibly massive and, in any case, the extant elites were simply incapable of such a feat.

'''Toxic socialization stunts and damages the [[Physical Unit]].''' It damages the [[Bodily Ego]] and causes

* [[PSST]] - Psychosocialspiritual trauma
* [[Fractured Attachments]]
* [[Physical Illness]]
* [[Disjuncture]]
* Lower IQ
* Lower [[CQ]]
* [[Addictions]]
* [[Robotization]]
* Premature aging

Toxic socialization disconnects. "The most important obstacle to that kind of openness is a history of traumatic experiences that lead to emotional and physical blockages, a kind of Reichian armoring that separates us from the rest of the world."<Ref>Laszlo, Ervin, Stanislav Grof, and Peter Russell. The Consciousness Revolution. Las Vegas: Elf Rock Productions, 1999. https://amzn.to/2TlOCmC.</ref>

'''Toxic socialization''' is required by [[The System]], important for [[System Maintenance]], actuated through indoctrination of an [[Old Energy Creation Template]], and supported by [[Intergenerational Toxicity]] (a.k.a. toxic "traditions")

"Spare the rod and spoil the child" is an admonishment to expose children to violence, an admonishment to Toxic Socialization.

Toxic socialization is implemented in order to create a docile and compliant [[Physical Unit]] with low [[CQ]], willing to fit into the accumulation machinery of this planet (Sosteric, 2016).

Abraham Maslow had a nascent sense of toxic socialization. He "generally ... believed that the social environment inhibits rather than facilitates [[Self-actualization]], for example by frustrating the lower needs, encouraging defensiveness, or masking the real self with an idealized self."<ref>Daniels, M. “The Development of the Concept of Self-Actualization in the Writings of Abraham Maslow.” Current Psychological Perspectives 2 (1982): 71.</ref> Maslow felt that a "culture gone bad" suppressed "love, kindness, and tenderness" and inhibited authentic human actualization<ref>Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 7.</ref> He suggested the need to consider the development of a ''Eupsychia'' or a "psychologically healthy culture" that encourages full human development, in particular, the expression of higher human needs and values.<ref>Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 1-2.</ref>

Maslow noted "I find children, up to the time they are spoiled and flattened out by the culture, nicer, better, more attractive human beings than their elders..." <ref>Maslow, Abraham. “Eupsychia—The Good Society.” Journal of Humanistic Psychology 1, no. 2 (1961): p. 274.</ref>

Again Maslow noted that toxic socialization wasn't necessary. "Culture is ''not'' intrinsically at sword's points with man's deepest impulses. It is ''not'' necessarily an instrument for taming, restraining, or inhibiting mankind, but could be, and I think, we'll be, seen as an instrument for more efficient satisfaction of man's deepest needs and impulses; in a word ''not'' "instinct" controlling but "instinct" gratifying. The fact that today our culture is in truth opposed to our basic impulses I regard as in part an artifact resulting from the incorrect conception not only of "instinct" but also of culture. It is an accident, ''not'' an inherent necessity.”<ref> Journal of Psychology 27 (January 1, 1949): 276.</ref>

Again, Maslow "...the impulses to hate, to be jealous, to be hostile, to be greedy, to be egoistic and selfish, are now being discovered more and more clearly to be acquired and not instinctive. They are almost certainly neurotic and sick reactions to bad situations, more specifically to frustrations of our truly basic and instinct-like needs and impulses."<ref>Maslow, A.H. “Our Maligned Animal Nature.” Journal of Psychology 27 (January 1, 1949): 273. p. 276</ref>

Abraham Maslow distinguished between "coping," which is a response to toxic environments, and expression, which can occur only in positive environments.<ref>Maslow.“The Expressive Component of Behavior.” Psychological Review 56, no. 5 (September 1949): 261–72. https://doi.org/10.1037/h0053630.</ref>

Maslow: Humans basically good, the System fucks them up. "This inner nature, as much as we know of it so far, seems not to be intrinsically or primarily or necessarily evil. The basic needs (for life, for safety and security, for belongingness and affection, for respect and self-respect, and for self-actualization), the basic human emotions and the basic human capacities are on their face either neutral, pre-moral or positively “good.” Destructiveness, sadism, cruelty, malice, etc., seem so far to be not intrinsic but rather they seem to be violent reactions against frustration of our intrinsic needs, emotions and capacities.... Since this inner nature is good or neutral rather than bad, it is best to bring it out and to encourage it rather than to sup press it. If it is permitted to guide our life, we grow healthy, fruitful, and happy....If this essential core of the person is denied or suppressed, he gets sick sometimes in obvious ways, sometimes in subtle ways, sometimes immediately, sometimes later....This inner nature is not strong and overpowering and un mistakable like the instincts of animals. It is weak and delicate and subtle and easily overcome by habit, cultural pressure, and wrong attitudes toward it."<ref>Maslow, A.H. Towards a Psychology of Being (2nd Edition). New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold Company, 1968. p. 3</ref>

John Lennon wrote [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMewtlmkV6c Working Class Hero] which is a discussion of Toxic Socialization in the context of social class exploitation.

The song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pZ-dv_Wl7og wage slaves] is about breaking the shackles that hold workers down in a system that depends on the diminishment of people through manipulation and constant demeaning, to service the greed of by people in powerful positions. (VJB).

The toxic quality of western cultures is recognized by others. A Samoan chief, for example, writes that in Samoan culture, "grey hair comes very slowly, not in youth, as it comes to the white man.<ref>Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa (Perennial Classics) (p. 46). William Morrow. Kindle Edition. "</ref>

You need sleep to regenerate. A system that encourages workaholism, 35+ hours, interferes with sleep https://www.wired.com/story/scientists-now-know-how-sleep-cleans-toxins-from-the-brain/?mbid=social_tw_sci&utm_brand=wired-science&utm_medium=social&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=twitter

Madame Blavatsky of Theosophical fame recognizes that violence and harming against an individual has serious repercussions, not only for the individual but for all of society . "Therefore, we say, that unless every man is brought to understand and accept as an axiomatic truth that by wronging one man we wrong not only ourselves but the whole of humanity in the long run, no brotherly feelings such as preached by all the great Reformers, pre-eminently by Buddha and Jesus, are possible on earth."<Ref>Blavatsky, H. P. The Key to Theosophy: A Clear Exposition Based on the Wisdom Religion of All Ages. Theosophical University Press, 1889.</ref>

Interestingly, prior to WWII in Germany, a Dr. Daniel Gottlieb Moritz Schreber advocated a horrific form of socialization, a “systematic approach close to torture” (Degrieck, 2015). The goal was unconditional obedience through harsh discipline—complete submission of the child.

“You will be master of the child forever. From then on, a glance, a word, a single threatening gesture will be sufficient to control the child,” Dr. Schreber.

This toxic socialization advocated by Schreber, a socialization process that destroyed his own child, may have contributed to the emotional wreckage that facilitated the rise of Hitler.

==Resources==

[https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/8-toxic-things-parents-say-to-their-children/ 8 Toxic Things Parents Say To their Children]

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==Further Reading==

Neufeld, Gorden & Mate, Gabor (2013). ''Hold On to Your Kids: Why Parents Need to Matter More than Peers''. Vintage Canada.

Sosteric, M. (2018). The damage we're doing to ourselves and our children. ''The Conversation.'' [https://theconversation.com/the-damage-were-doing-to-our-children-and-ourselves-97894]

Sosteric, Mike (2012). The Emotional Abuse of Our Children. Teachers, Schools, and the Sanctioned Violence of our Modern Institutions. ''Socjourn''' [http://www.sociology.org/the-emotional-abuse-of-our-children-teachers-schools-and-the-sanctioned-violence-of-our-modern-institutions/]

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Wakan Tanka

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<blockquote class="definition">'''Wakan Tanka''' is the Lakota name for [[The Fabric of Consciousness]]</blockquote>

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Wakan Tanka is typically corrupted to mean ''The Great Spirit.'' However, Eastman notes that ''wakan'' means mystery and ''tanka'' means "great, mighty or supreme."<Ref>Eastman, Dr. Charles A. "Sioux Mythology." The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition. Eds. Basett, Hellen Wheeler and Frederick Starr. Vol. I: Charles H. Sergel Company, 1898. 222.</ref>

The highly ethnocentric and frankly offensive Dr. Charles Eastman notes that the Sioux did not believe they were worthy of directly approaching (i.e. connecting) with Wankan Tanka.<ref>Eastman, Dr. Charles A. "Sioux Mythology." The International Folk-Lore Congress of the World's Columbian Exposition. Eds. Basett, Hellen Wheeler and Frederick Starr. Vol. I: Charles H. Sergel Company, 1898. 225-6.</ref> This may explain the Native American emphasis on [[Shamanic Drumming]] to induce a [[Trance Connection]], rather than a more direct and unmitigated connection to [[The Fabric]]

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